Hello, I use packer to build some appliances. Everything is working properly for every target hypervisor except with the vmware-iso. My "builder" machine has Workstation Player 12 installed. The build process is working but when I try to import the VM in a ESXi 6 host, I get the following error "Unsupported or invalid disk type 7". According to VMware KB <https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1028943>, this error occurs if a virtual machine that is meant for VMware Hosted products such as VMware Workstation, VMware Player or VMware Fusion is powered-on on an ESX/ESXi host. My goal is to build a VM without my costumer having to do some manual steps like converting the disk and so on. No matter how many times I read the documentation, I'm having problems building a ESXi-compatible VM with Workstation Player. The disk_type_id apparently does not work, even though the documentation states that disk_type_id 4 is ESX compatible.
Does anyone know how to build a ESXi-compatible VM without a ESXi host? Thanks in advance -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/832029b0-8054-49f3-b8ae-f6753705358d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
